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Texas Tech LB Terrance Bullitt done for the season with shoulder injury

After missing Texas Tech’s 41-34 win against Kansas on Saturday, strong side linebacker Terrance Bullitt’s junior season is now officially over.

Bullitt, a Naaman Forest High School graduate, will undergo shoulder surgery after aggravating a shoulder injury originally sustained in the fall camp workouts of 2011. He played through the pain last season and underwent surgery in the offseason. Playing through the pain is no longer an option this season, however.

“We’ve got some guys that are still beat up,” head coach Tommy Tuberville said. “Terrance Bullitt will be operated on this week. We’re going to lose him. We hate that. Same shoulder, and he just couldn’t go anymore. Hopefully we’ll get Jarvis Phillips back and Cornelius Douglas.”

Mansfield native, Summit High School alum and true freshman Micah Awe is listed beneath Bullitt on the depth chart, but Tuberville said he will probably put sophomore weak side linebacker Zach Winbush in Bullitt’s place when the Red Raiders run their 4-3 base defense.

Winbush had been splitting time with fellow WILL linebacker sophomore Sam Eguavoen, a Lakeview Centennial graduate.

“Winbush is going to play more,” Tuberville said. “He didn’t play bad last week. He played 15, 17 snaps. I think that’s the most he’s ever played. He just needs some reps, another spring practice as Awe does. Awe’s going to be a heck of a player. The problem is you put (Awe) out there and he’s going to play a hundred miles an hour, he might not be the right place. He might take the right gap, but he loves to play. Probably should have played him a little bit more earlier in the year, when we still had depth there. Now that we don’t have the depth and some guys are getting beat up, he’s going to have to play some.”